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What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

Henry Miller

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Henry Miller
Age: 88 †
Born: 1891
Born: December 26
Died: 1980
Died: June 7
Essayist
Novelist
Painter
Writer
New York City
New York
Genri Miller
Henri Miller
Phineas Flapdoodle
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Painful
Mind
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Strength
Joy
Open
Beauty
Faced
Evil
Nasty
Become
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The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.
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I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.
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Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.
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Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
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New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.
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